Develop testing routines or procedures.

Develop testing routines or procedures. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 8 occupations and seen in 18 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 18 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 18 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 4 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.012% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability. · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers · importance 4.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Design test plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures. · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers · importance 4.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Update automated test scripts to ensure currency. · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers · importance 4.1 · direct LLM exposure
• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates. · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers · importance 4.0 · direct LLM exposure
• Write, review, or execute plans for testing new or established document management systems. · Document Management Specialists · importance 4.0 · direct LLM exposure
• Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation. · Software Developers · importance 3.9 · direct LLM exposure
• Develop and write procedures for installation, use, or troubleshooting of communications hardware or software. · Computer Network Architects · importance 3.8 · direct LLM exposure
• Create plans, test files, and scripts for data warehouse testing, ranging from unit to integration testing. · Data Warehousing Specialists · importance 3.6 · direct LLM exposure
• Design or develop automated testing tools. · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers · importance 3.6 · direct LLM exposure
• Evaluate testing routines or procedures for adequacy, sufficiency, and effectiveness. · Web Administrators · importance 3.6 · direct LLM exposure
• Develop and qualify new testing methods. · Quality Control Analysts · importance 3.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Develop testing routines and procedures. · Web Administrators · importance 3.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Create gameplay test plans for internal and external test groups. · Video Game Designers · importance 3.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Develop, document, and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards. · Computer Systems Analysts · importance 3.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Develop and execute tests that simulate the techniques of known cyber threat actors. · Penetration Testers · direct LLM exposure
• Develop infiltration tests that exploit device vulnerabilities. · Penetration Testers · direct LLM exposure
• Develop security penetration testing processes, such as wireless, data networks, and telecommunication security tests. · Penetration Testers · direct LLM exposure
• Develop, validate, and document test routines and schedules to ensure that test cases mimic external interfaces and address all browser and device types. · Web and Digital Interface Designers · direct LLM exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
• Document Management Specialists
• Software Developers
• Computer Network Architects
• Data Warehousing Specialists
• Quality Control Analysts
• Video Game Designers
• Computer Systems Analysts

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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